Jacques François
89 movies · 4 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 16, 1920
- Died
- Nov 25, 2003 (age 83)
- Place of birth
- Paris, France
- Also known as
- Jacques Francois · Henri Jacques Daniel Paul François
Biography
Henri Jacques Daniel Paul François (16 May 1920 – 25 November 2003), known as Jacques François was a French actor. During a sixty-year career (1942–2002) he appeared in more than 120 films and over 30 stage productions.
During World War II, he served as a captain in the French First Army under General de Lattre.
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In 1948 he went to Hollywood with a view to playing the lead in Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophüls, 1948) but the part went to Louis Jourdan. After appearing alongside Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers as the playwright Jacques Pierre Barredout in The Barkleys of Broadway (1949) he returned to France.
François regularly dubbed Gregory Peck into French.
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Profiles IMDb
Known for
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★ 6.0 The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time
1998 · Film
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★ 7.4 The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
1973 · Film
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★ 7.3 Santa Claus Is a Stinker
1982 · Film
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★ 7.5 The Day of the Jackal
1973 · Film
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★ 7.5 Sorcerer
1977 · Film
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★ 6.1 The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
1979 · Film
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★ 6.0 The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
1982 · Film
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★ 6.9 Gramps Is in the Resistance
1983 · Film
Jacques François: movies and TV shows
Acting (93)
- 2004 Eros Therapy
as M. de la Touche
- 2001 Fifi Martingale
as Ambassador
- 2000 The King Is Dancing
as Cambefort
- 2000 Actors
as Jacques François
- 1998 The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time
as Maurice
- 1996 My Man
as 2nd client
- 1996 North Star
as Colonel Henry Johnson
- 1995 La Veuve de l'architecte
as Jeannot
- 1993 George et Margaret
as Malcolm Smith
- 1992 My Wife's Girlfriends
as Gilbert Thonon
- 1992 Les Danseurs du Mozambique
as Theodore
- 1992 Leopard Ties
as Bergaux Latour
- 1992
- 1991 Des cadavres à la pelle
as Le Comte Emile
- 1991
- 1991 Robinson and Company
as Robinson (Voice)
- 1991 Triplex
as M. Challes
- 1991 L'Opération Corned Beef
as Le Général Masse, supérieur hiérarchique du Squale
- 1989 My Best Pals
as M. Thuiliet
- 1988
- 1986 Twist Again in Moscow
as Marshal Bassounov
- 1986 Sauve-toi, Lola
as Charles Schneider
- 1985 Liberté, égalité, choucroute
as Necker
- 1984 Le Tueur triste
as Notaire
- 1984 Led by the Nose
as Le Docteur Gaby Choulet
- 1984 Until September
as M Mauriac
- 1984 The Blood of Others
as Colonel Catelas
- 1983 Gramps Is in the Resistance
as Jacques de Frémontel dit « Félix », résistant
- 1983 The African
as Le docteur Patterson
- 1983 Man, Woman and Child
as Louis
- 1982 The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
as Le colonel
- 1982 Santa Claus Is a Stinker
as Docteur Poinsot, le pharmacien de quartier
- 1982 Malesherbes, avocat du roi
as Tronchet
- 1982 Bankers Also Have Souls
as Jacques Loriol
- 1982 Tête à claques
as Mr. Crispin-Vautier
- 1982 A Thousand Billion Dollars
as Fred Great
- 1981 Shut Up When You Speak!
as Diafoirus
- 1981 San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
as Le vieux
- 1981 We're Not Angels... Neither Are They
as Jacques Loriol
- 1981 The Ones That Got Away
as The stylish traveler
- 1981
- 1981 Il est important d'être aimé
as Jack Worthing
- 1980 L'Amant complaisant
as Victor Rhodes
- 1979 Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses
as Daniel Granier, pharmacist, friend of Christine
- 1979 I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
as Aurélien Brucheloir
- 1979 Seven Days in January
as Don Thomas
- 1979 The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
as Le colonel de gendarmerie
- 1979 Heart to Heart
as M. Delorme
- 1978 Too Shy to Try
as Mr. Henri
- 1978 One, Two, Two: 122, rue de Provence
as Deputy Bouillaud-Crevel
- 1978 The Discord
as Le préfet
- 1978 Le Greluchon délicat
as Michel
- 1977 Sorcerer
as Lefevre
- 1976 The Toy
as Mr. de Blénac, editor-in-chief of the newspaper
- 1976 Chi dice donna, dice donna
as Charles
- 1975 Cat and Mouse
as Police Prefect
- 1975 Special Section
as Maurice Gabolde
- 1974 Chinese In Paris
as Hervé Sainfous de Montaubert
- 1974 Antoine and Sebastian
as Captain
- 1973 The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
as General
- 1973 The Day of the Jackal
as Pascal
- 1973 Moi y'en a vouloir des sous
as Delfan
- 1973 December
as Serge de la Prévoteraie
- 1972 The Assassination
as Lestienne
- 1972 Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful
as Plantier
- 1972 Églantine
as Edmond
- 1971
- 1970 Earth Light
as Elstir, l'Éditeur
- 1970 Un jeu d'enfer
as Benjamin Constant
- 1967 An Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
as Sherlock Holmes
- 1967 La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire
as Un causeur dans le boudoir
- 1966 Un mois à la campagne
as Rakitine
- 1963 Caterina
as Giorgio
- 1961 La Mort de Pompée
as Photin
- 1955 The Grand Manoeuvre
as Rodolphe Chartier
- 1955 To Paris with Love
as Victor de Colville
- 1954 At the Order of the Czar
as Franz Liszt
- 1953 Royal Affairs in Versailles
as Duke de Saint-Simon
- 1953 The Three Musketeers
as Aramis
- 1953 The Father of the Girl
as Michel Leclair
- 1953 My Childish Father
as Gérard Morrison
- 1953 South of Algiers
as Jacques Farnod
- 1952 Three Women
as Horace (segment "Mouche")
- 1951 Adhémar or the Toy of Destiny
as Le valet
- 1951 Encore
as Pierre, French Steward
- 1951 Edward and Caroline
as Alain Beauchamp
- 1951 Skipper Next to God
as The doctor
- 1950 Pact with the Devil
as Andrea Mola
- 1949 The Barkleys of Broadway
as Jacques Barredout
- 1948 Just a Big Simple Girl
as Mick
- 1946 Queen's Necklace
as Count of Artois (uncredited)
- 1943 Captain Fracasse
as Vidalenc
- 1942
Behind the camera (1)
- 1980 L'Amant complaisant
Director
Talk shows and appearances (5)
- 2013
- 2003
- 1990 Stars 90
1 episode
- 1987 Sacrée soirée
1 episode
- 1982 Champs-Elysées
3 episodes